Gain (κερδηση) and

profit (ζημιωθη). Both aorist subjunctives (one active, the other passive) and so punct…

For what is a man profited, etc. To gain the whole world means to possess it as our own—all its riches, honors, and pleasures. To lose…

what is a man profited...? — It is for a specific reason that the argument from expediency, as it might be called, is introduced h…

If he loses his real life, how can he profit, even if the world were his? The true gain or loss is a gain or loss of life. All external things are …

St. John Chrysostom: Because He had said, Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will sav…

For the sense of v.25, see comment on 10:39. Verse 26 furthers the argument by asking twin rhetorical questions, showing the folly of possessing al…

For what doth it profit a man? The word soul is here used in the strictest sense. Christ reminds them that the soul of m…

For what is a man profited
Such persons, though they are only seeking their own profit, will find themselves most sadly mistak…

A true disciple of Christ is one who follows him in duty, and will follow him to glory. He is one who walks in the same way Christ walked, is led b…

Above, Peter’s confe ion of Christ’s divinity was related; here, Christ commands silence for a time, specifically, that they do not say that He is …